David Lagercrantz’s The Girl in the Spider’s Web, his continuation of the late Stieg Larsson’s wildly popular Millennium series, dominated the overseas charts last month. The book, published by Knopf in the U.S., debuted at #1 in France, Germany, and Sweden in August.

In France, the previous top-selling novel, E.L. James’s Grey: Fifty Shades of Grey as Told by Christian (another continuation of a series), dropped from #1 to the #3 spot. The book was published Stateside by Vintage in June. New at #2 was Christine Angot’s An Impossible Love.

Behind The Girl in the Spider’s Web on Germany’s fiction chart was About Finitude, the last book Nobel laureate Günter Grass completed before his death in April of this year. The book combines a series of short prose texts, each accompanied by a poem and a pencil drawing by the author. Old Country by Dörte Hansen, the previous top seller, moved to #3.

In Sweden, Grey debuted at #2 on the fiction chart, behind Lagercrantz. The latest crime novel from Leif GW Persson, The Bomb Maker and His Woman, fell from #1 to #3.

In France, scientist Giulia Enders held on to her #1 spot on the nonfiction list with The Discreet Charm of the Intestine. The next two books on the list were both new to the chart last month. Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt’s The Night of Fire, which details how the author found faith while lost in the mountains for 30 hours, came in at #2; and Jean d’Ormesson’s God, Business and Us, the French novelist’s views on French politics and foreign affairs, hit #3.

Mats and Susan Billmark’s Learn to Live, a guide to coping with stress and anxiety, was once again the top title on Sweden’s nonfiction chart.

International Bestsellers

France

Fiction Nonfiction
1 Millénium, vol. 4: Ce qui ne me tue pas
The Girl in the Spider’s Web
David Lagercrantz
Actes Sud
Le charme discret de l’intestin
The Discreet Charm of the Intestine
Giulia Enders
Actes Sud
2 Un amour impossible
An Impossible Love
Christine Angot
Flammarion
La nuit de feu
The Night of Fire
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Albin Michel
3 Grey: Cinquante nuances de Grey
par Christian
Grey: Fifty Shades of Grey as Told
by Christian
E.L. James
Lattès
Dieu, les affaires et nous
God, Business and Us
Jean d’Ormesson
Robert Laffont

Germany

Fiction Nonfiction
1 Verschwörung
The Girl in the Spider’s Web
David Lagercrantz
Heyne
Der Appell des Dalai Lama an die Welt
An Appeal by the Dalai Lama to
the World
Dalai Lama
Benevento
2 Vonne Endlichkait
About Finitude
Günter Grass
Steidl
Das geheime Leben der Bäume
The Secret Life of Trees
Peter Wohlleben
Ludwig
3 Altes Land
Old Country
Dörte Hansen
Knaus
Gelassenheit
Equanimity: What We Gain as We Grow Older
Wilhelm Schmid
Insel

Sweden

Fiction Nonfiction
1 Det som inte dödar oss
The Girl in the Spider’s Web
David Lagercrantz
Norstedts
Lär dig leva
Learn to Live
Mats & Susan Billmark
Livskraft
2 Grey: Femtio nyanser av honom enligt Christian
Grey: Fifty Shades of Grey as Told
by Christian
E.L. James
Norstedts
LCHF 2.0
LCHF 2.0
Anna Hallén &
Åse Falkman Fredrikson
Tukan Förlag
3 Bombmakaren och hans kvinna
The Bomb Maker and His Woman
Leif GW Persson
Albert Bonniers Förlag
10 matsvampar
10 Mushrooms
Tukan Förlag